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BOSTON (AP) — Giddy fans of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots chanted "Brady! Brady!" and clambered atop massive snowbanks for better views as players danced and waved their way through Boston in a Wednesday parade celebrating their fourth NFL title. Well-wishers blew kisses, pumped their fists and screamed themselves hoarse as the team rolled through downtown aboard the World War II-style amphibious "duck boat" vehicles that have become a staple of the city's championship parades. Some fans defied police warnings and climbed on giant piles of snow left from last week's blizzard to get a glimpse of quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick...

This past week, lawyers for the defense and the prosecution in the trial of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev started whittling a jury pool of 1,300 down to 18 men and women: 12 jurors and six alternates. Given the amount of visual evidence...

Can Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, get a fair trial in the Hub? It's a profound question, but one that the Framers would have found incomprehensible. Far from providing for a change of venue in high-profile cases, they...

DENVER (AP) — When the leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee meet Thursday, they'll be deciding on more than a city to put in the running to host the 2024 Summer Games. They'll be picking a partner that will help shape their future.
Leaders from...

VIA MARATHON1 Register now for the annual Lehigh Valley Health Network Via Marathon, which will be Sept. 13, and you'll save yourself some money.Fee to register is $95 through Jan. 8. The last day to register will be Aug. 9 or when the marathon...

Corrosion, degradation and decay destroy a lot of history, but Massachusetts officials can thank the elements for helping uncover the past.
In a damp ceremony of discovery Thursday, snow-flecked excavators in Boston retrieved a time capsule whose...

There's nothing funny about running a half marathon.
For most people, it takes months of hard work, sweat, aches and pains. And despite the desire to "just finish" a 13.1 mile run, there's the added pressure to meet your training goal or set...

Even though I smelled bad enough to knock a buzzard off a gut pile, the people in the medical tent of the 2013 Victoria Marathon were kind and caring. One paramedic even let me use his cell to make a long-distance call to my wife, who was watching via...

It's been called the second-fastest marathon in the country, and when the LVHN Via Marathon and Marathon Relay teams take off on Sunday morning from Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township, almost 1,800 people will be running by the trout...

You can call him "The Run Doctor."
If your feet are failing you, he knows what to do, and with authority.
Austin Sedicum, a Quakertown podiatrist who is the clinical director of Upper Bucks Foot & Ankle Medical Center, does more than...

The New York Yankees became the latest Major League Baseball team to introduce metal detectors to its stadium, part of a broader security push that will ultimately defeat its stated purpose.
After testing the new screening method in a handful of...

Budd Coates is known as a multi-time U.S. Olympic marathon hopeful, the fitness guru of Runner's World and Bicycling magazine parent Rodale, and one of the most helpful running coaches when it comes to first-timers attempting their first 5K, 10K or...

When Ben Chebot crossed the LVHN Via Marathon finish line in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 56 seconds on Sunday morning, the race announcers proclaimed him to be from Oakland, Calif.
But he's not, really.
He grew up in Newton, Mass., training on the...

After a 10-year run as Bethlehem’s mayor, John Callahan is now preparing to literally run a marathon. He said he’s gotten a spot to run in the Boston marathon in April, thanks to an exemption granted by Boston marathon race director Dave McGillivray. McGillivr

The 2014 Runner’s World Half & Marathon Festival that will take place Oct. 17-19 in Bethlehem has opened its Early Bird Registration through Monday, Jan. 13 on the ww.rwhalf.com web site. The 5K and 10K will be run on Oct. 18 and the half marathon on Oct. 19.

The 2014 Runner’s World Half & Marathon Festival that will take place Oct. 17-19 in Bethlehem has opened its Early Bird Registration through Monday, Jan. 13 on the ww.rwhalf.com web site. The 5K and 10K will be run on Oct ... .

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case in his federal death penalty trial Tuesday, a day after they began presenting testimony designed to show his late older brother was the mastermind of the 2013 terror attack....

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzkhokar Tsarnaev started their case by trying to show that his older brother was the driving force behind the 2013 terror attack.
The defense called one of its first witnesses on Monday. A cell site analyst testified...

Prosecutors rested their case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday after jurors in his federal death penalty trial saw gruesome autopsy photos and heard a medical examiner describe the devastating injuries suffered by an 8-year-old...

A decorated Boston police officer shot point-blank in the face by a suspect was in stable condition at a hospital Sunday and improving after surgery to remove a bullet lodged below his ear, police said.
Officer John Moynihan, 34, underwent several...